Enjoy art making, music, performances and tours on the first Sunday of every month.

Connect with your art collection and find your favourite work of art on a discovery tour, take a drawing journey through the collection, explore colour with choreography; and encounter spectacular sounds, storytelling and Pico’s Puppet Palace performances this Start.

11am-3pm

Nylon Zoo
Explore Evelyn Roth’s colourful incredible inflatable wonderland.
Sculpture Courtyard

11am & 1pm

Pico’s Puppet Palace
Pico meets many wonderful characters including Lou a dragon who lives in a cave at the edge of the lagoon. Does Lou guard the solution to Pico’s empty fuel tank? How will the story unfold? Join Pico and friends in the story of the golden lagoon.
Location: Courtyard marquee
Duration: 45mins

11am, 11.30am (Auslan), 12pm, 12.30pm, 1pm, 1.30pm & 2pm

Start Discovery Tours
Interactive art experiences for toddlers, teens and in-betweens with Gallery Guides.
Meet in the Atrium
Duration: 20 minutes

11am, 12noon, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm

Start Art workshops - Collection Connections
Customise your connection to the collection into a wearable work of art or focus on your favourite in your own pastel masterpiece!
The Studio - Drop in, (limited capacity 20)
Radford Auditorium
Duration: 45 minutes

11am, 11,30am,12pm, 12.30pm, 1pm, 1.30pm & 2pm

Start Sketch Tours
Join a drawing journey through the Gallery with hosts artist Alise Hardy and Illustrator Lauren Herraman.
Meet at The Studio
Duration: 45 minutes

11.15am, 12.15pm & 1.15pm

Storytelling Performances
Hear a tale of wanting and waiting based on a story by the wonderful Eleanor Farjeon and performed by master storyteller, Helen Lawry.
Function room.
Duration: 45 minutes

11.30am, 12.30pm & 1.30pm

Colourful Choreography with the Collection
Explore colour in the collection through choreography with Jessie Mckinlay.
Meet at the top of the stairs in Gallery 7.
Duration: 45mins

12pm & 2pm

Start Sounds
DJ Kit Kain on the decks & Catching Spiders
Marquee, Sculpture Courtyard

Art Gallery Food + Wine

10% discount for AGSA and Start Art Club Members

On your visit please

  • Check in when you arrive by using your Start Art Club Membership.
  • Book into activities on arrival.
  • We’ve added extra tours but numbers and capacity restrictions apply. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.
  • Remember to social distance, wash your hands, and use hand sanitiser frequently. AGSA has increased cleaning on the premises.
  • If you’re not well or experiencing flu-like symptoms, please join us online instead of at the Gallery.
Presented by
  • James and Diana Ramsay Foundation